Sep 2, 2026 · 1 hr 10 min · 11 segments
In this episode, I answer some questions about the problematic language of "divine combat" when considered against the history of Christian triumphalism, and I begin talking about Paul's…
Tim GombosHost
There was an article, an interesting article in the New Yorker several days ago about...
About comedians that had formerly imitated, say like 10 years ago, had formerly imitated the current president.
So like Alec Baldwin and a few other people that had done this on Saturday Night Live or other shows and how it is that these comedians are either regretting playing that role or just no longer finding it compelling or interesting or desirable.
And I thought, I thought that was pretty interesting because I have to say from the beginning of the current president's first term back in 2016 or whenever his term began, uh, I have to say, I did not find joking about that man funny.
First of all, knowing what the man is doing to the country and especially to people who are on the margins, who are vulnerable, none of that is funny.
He's not merely a buffoon and a complete clown and an incompetent doofus, but he's doing real damage to people and real damage to people who are in need or who are vulnerable.
And if If there's anything in public life that is just tremendously ugly or anything in in like organizational life that to me is so profoundly ugly.
It's people who punch down, people who have power and use it against people who are vulnerable.
That to me is one of the ugliest, ugliest things in any sort of organizational life.
What I find really noble is somebody who punches up or somebody who advocates up for people down the chain in an organizational sort of arrangement.
That is to say, they sort of go up the organizational chart to sort of rattle the cage and shake loose resources for people beneath them, to give their people resources and make their lives easier.
To me, that's so noble, and I have loads of respect for people who behave that way.
There was an article, an interesting article in the New Yorker several days ago about...
About comedians that had formerly imitated, say like 10 years ago, had formerly imitated the current president.
So like Alec Baldwin and a few other people that had done this on Saturday Night Live or other shows and how it is that these comedians are either regretting playing that role or just no longer finding it compelling or interesting or desirable.
And I thought, I thought that was pretty interesting because I have to say from the beginning of the current president's first term back in 2016 or whenever his term began, uh, I have to say, I did not find joking about that man funny.
First of all, knowing what the man is doing to the country and especially to people who are on the margins, who are vulnerable, none of that is funny.
He's not merely a buffoon and a complete clown and an incompetent doofus, but he's doing real damage to people and real damage to people who are in need or who are vulnerable.
And if If there's anything in public life that is just tremendously ugly or anything in in like organizational life that to me is so profoundly ugly.
It's people who punch down, people who have power and use it against people who are vulnerable.
That to me is one of the ugliest, ugliest things in any sort of organizational life.
What I find really noble is somebody who punches up or somebody who advocates up for people down the chain in an organizational sort of arrangement.
That is to say, they sort of go up the organizational chart to sort of rattle the cage and shake loose resources for people beneath them, to give their people resources and make their lives easier.
To me, that's so noble, and I have loads of respect for people who behave that way.
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